THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT? TO IMPLEMENT A SYSTEM AIMED AT MONITORING, NOWCASTING CLASSIFICATION (I.E. FORECAST AT MOST A FEW HOURS IN ADVANCE), OF INTENSE AND EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS ON AN URBAN SCALE OR ON SMALL RIVER BASINS, BASED ON A NETWORK OF INNOVATIVE LOW-POWER OUTPUT MINIRADARS. DO SUCH EVENTS OFTEN DETERMINE?FLASH-FLOOD? THAT IS, FLOODS OF SMALL STREAMS THAT DEVELOP IN A VERY SHORT TIME DUE TO THE HIGH INTENSITY? PRECIPITATION REACHED BY THE REVERSES (OFTEN REFERRED TO AS “WATER BOMBS?”) WHICH ARE SOMETIMES NOT WELL DETECTED BY THE TRADITIONAL LONG-RANGE WEATHER RADAR NETWORKS AND BY THE RAIN NETWORKS THAT, BEING BASED ON PUNCTUAL MEASUREMENTS DO NOT PROVIDE AN ADEQUATE SPATIAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FENOMENI.THE MINIRADARS WILL BE DEVELOPED WITH TECHNOLOGY?SOLID? LOW OUTPUT POWER, SO THAT THEY CAN BE USED IN DENSELY POPULATED ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS URBAN ONES, AND WILL BE EQUIPPED WITH U